‘The Following’ Season Finale: The Final Chapter

For the love of the Kennedy square chin, can the FBI get something right tonight? Are you surprised that law enforcement didn’t rise en masse and demand that the second season of The Following be killed for portraying all cops as mentally slow and unable to hit a target?

Anyway, tonight’s the Season 1 Finale. Last time, Agent Parker was buried alive. Serial Killer Professor Joe had taken Claire on a boat and was very very angry due to her stabbing him. Twice.

Conveniently, Agent Parker was buried with a cell phone and is able to answer it when Ryan Hardy calls. Emma sends Hardy a phone number in a Poe mask. It’s the phone in the coffin.

Claire and Joe are in a lighthouse. Claire is mocking Joe for being a cliche. Professor Joe says Ryan has to bear witness and that Claire’s death will finally do Hardy in. Joe is going crazy crazy, so he locks her in a room. There’s another guy in the room, some guy who was forced to bring a boat over and then the cult members broke his ankle. Claire tries to convince Joe to let him go.

The FBI finds a cult member’s car and the cult member, who won’t fess up where Claire is. So Agents Weston and Hardy beat the crap out of the guy and Hardy thumbs his eye out. Blurrgggh. He fesses up where Claire is, but on their way there Debra is passing out. They find her but it’s too late. Another death on Ryan’s head.

So he shoots the cult member. Now Ryan is losing it. In the coffin is Joe’s book. But not everyone in Joe’s book came true and Weston wants to change the story. Ryan wants to fight alone, but Weston doesn’t want to and wants to surprise Joey. Too bad, Hardy says in yet another stupid move that will come to haunt him.

Back at the lighthouse, Joe wants to know when Claire knew he liked to kill. Claire says she should have known but she didn’t because she was blinded by love. Joe says she should have known.

Then he pulls out the guy from the other room and stabs him over and over again so that she won’t take responsibility for his actions.

Ryan goes to the address that Joe described in the book.

There he finds Emma and gets syringed in the neck. Because he’s an idiot. When he wakes up, Joe is there and rambly. Joe says it’s been a rough time, being stabbed with a knife and a folk He wonders why anyone would fall in love with either of them.

Hardy says he followed Claire to see if she would lead to Joe, and then fell in love with her. Joe is about to start stabbing Claire’s eyes out when Hardy starts mocking Joe’s writing. Then he starts mocking Edgar Allan Poe and Joe is not having any of that.

They struggle and Joe flees to another house that is filled with gasoline containers.

So Claire is safe, Joey is safe, Ryan is safe, Weston is safe, although he’s still mad at Joe. They are all waiting for confirmation that it was Joe Carroll’s body. So far, dental records match.

Emma is still alive and still crazy and she hates Claire. Do you think she’ll take over the second season?

Claire and Hardy go back to his place and kiss and act like everything is ok. He orders Chinese food and leaves a knife on the counter and goes to lock the door. When he comes back, Molly, his ex-girlfriend and Carroll follower, stabs him and then stabs Claire when she comes to check on him.

So close to happy and yet, so far. See you next season!

P.S. Do you think Carroll is actually dead? What did you think of the season? Tell us in the comments.

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